(Chapter 24)

The snow is falling, like a dream.

The leaves are falling, and there are traces of yellowing.

In such a snowy season, perhaps it is never you and me who should stop.

The gurgling tea is boiling and tumbling on the small stove, the tender green tea leaves are floating and sinking in the boiling water, and occasionally the flying snow outside the pavilion blows in, and the slightest bit of cold is through the bones.

"Have you always been so pale?"

Yun Sheng wrapped the handle of the teapot in a white cloth, then picked up the teapot on the small stove and poured a cup of tea for me and himself.

I looked at the misty white orchid tea in front of me, and my mind went blank for a moment.

"It's not the same appearance, it's snow white."

Yun Sheng was noncommittal, he held the wall of the teacup with both hands. The hot temperature came from the inside of the cup, and he didn't withdraw his hand.

It's so cold, isn't it?

"The sincerity of the original appearance has come out, now it's time to see the sincerity of Yun Gongzi." I didn't touch the tea he poured.

Yun Sheng said, "The Yun family has paid 100,000, which is not a small amount in Tuzhou, don't you think it's sincere enough?" ”

"Not enough." I stared into his eyes, "You know what it means. ”

Yun Sheng looked at me, and then he chuckled.

"The adult has gained such a high status in the officialdom, but still wants to get a foot in the shopping mall?"

When I saw him laugh, I laughed too.

"Since ancient times, power is inseparable from power, and power is inseparable from wealth. The nature paves the way for you, you make money from the appearance, and the appearance wants to get back the due reward from you, cause and effect are like this, isn't it? ”

Yun Sheng lowered his head and groaned for a while, then picked up the tea that had become warm in his hand and took a sip.

"The Prime Minister is for our Yun family, except for the Pei family, our Yun family, we want to thank your lordship."

I waited for him to continue.

"If the adults are willing, my Yun family is willing to devote the strength of the whole clan to be the most loyal friends of the adults."

I looked at him, and he looked up at me, and his glassy eyes seemed to reflect the snow outside the pavilion.

"Why do you represent your Yun family? You are not the only young master of your Yun family. ”

"The Prime Minister doesn't believe in my abilities?"

"I never bother with a person who can only talk on paper."

"Coincidentally, so did I."

"Oh?"

"Don't worry, three days later, I will invite you to today's banquet in the Yun family, as the head of the Yun family."

I picked up the teacup, squinted and smiled, "If you can do it, you won't regret your decision today." With that, I drank some of the tea that was a little cold.

Yun Sheng saw my movements, and he silently put the teapot on the table back on the small stove.

"Bailan is the most reserved, and she can't tolerate a second steam, if you do this, this pot of tea will not be able to drink." I disagreed.

Yun Sheng didn't care how precious this golden white orchid was, he just swept his gaze lightly from my face, then stood up, slowly walked two steps, walked to the railing of the pavilion, he stopped and said, "It's just a pot of tea, if the adult likes to drink it, I can ask the family to go back to the house and get a few catties of white orchid for the adult." ”

It's great to be rich, it's amazing to sell tea, how can you think that you haven't seen the world?

I picked up the pastry on the table and tasted it, nodded and said, "Okay, Benxiang still wants to drink Biluochun, you can get some for Benxiang together." However, you don't have to send it today, and when you feast on the Prime Minister three days later, the Prime Minister will pick it up himself. ”

Yun Sheng turned to look at me, and he smiled, "My lord really doesn't trust people easily. ”

I pretended not to hear and shoved another piece of water chestnut cake into my mouth.

"The snow in Tuzhou is very cold, but I don't want to lose the momentum, and adults don't want to wear more." Yun Shen looked at my light clothes, and frowned, "No matter how thick the cloak is, the body can't bear it." ”

I joked, "Yun Gongzi cares about people." ”

Yun Sheng disagreed, "My Yun family will have to rely on the Prime Minister in the future, if the adults are short of energy because of their bodies, won't we be panicked?" ”

I viciously swallowed the pastry that had been stuffed into my mouth.

"Makes sense." I lamented, "After all, I'm old, so I should take care of myself." ”

Yun Sheng looked at my mouth full of pastry dregs, and the corners of his mouth twitched.

"That's so." I got up from the stone bench, "I'll go back to my room and rest." Yun Gongzi wants to send someone to send him? ”

"No need." Yun Sheng shook his head.

Quite eye-catching, good boy.

I couldn't help but admire my own vision in my heart.

"Okay then." I nodded at him and prepared to go back to my room.

"Wait." Yun Sheng called out to me.

I looked at him suspiciously, "What's wrong?" ”

Yun Sheng walked up to me in three or two steps, and he took out a purple embroidered handkerchief from his sleeve and handed it to me.

"...... I didn't answer.

"The handkerchief given by the purple girl of Yunxiang Pavilion is very fragrant." Yun Sheng tried to convince me.

So? Why are you giving me a handkerchief from a woman or a woman in the Qinglou?

I glared at him.

Yun Sheng saw that I didn't understand what he meant, hesitated for a while, he pointed to the corner of his mouth and said, "My lord, you are here...... Do you want to wipe it? ”

“……”

I tugged at the handkerchief and wiped the corners of my mouth.

The image of the original graceful and suave.

Kill me, I don't want to eat these pastries anymore, it's really a sweet thing that women love to eat, just like women, troublesome!

After wiping my mouth, I glared at Yun Sheng fiercely, threw the handkerchief back into Yun Sheng's arms, and I turned around and left.

"Your Excellency." Yun Sheng called me behind my back again.

I didn't want to look back, I didn't want to listen to his nonsense, but I was afraid that I would lose face on my body, so after thinking about it, I still stopped and turned back.

It's better to lose face in front of the same person than to lose the same face in front of countless people.

"What else is going on with you?" I stood in the snow with a black face and looked at him.

The snow was falling a little heavier and fluttering, and I couldn't see the look in Yun Sheng's eyes.

"Prime Minister, there is something I want to ask my lord."

Back in the house, Yun Sheng didn't go to see Yun Hai, he first went to a small courtyard that was tightly covered by snow.

Although the small yard is not large, a few plum trees are blooming vigorously. The plum blossom petals are exquisitely clear, crystal lovely, and the fragrance of cold plum is scattered in the snow, and the color is splashed with ink.

The best-blooming plum plant happened to face a semicircular window, which was large and vermilion lacquered, and the gentle and delicate figure in it was faintly visible in the mottled shadows of the trees.

She's embroidering.

He probably shouldn't have bothered her.

As soon as his footsteps stopped, he was about to turn away, but the flower branches in his robe still disturbed the shadow.

"Zisheng, is that you?"

Yun Sheng paused and walked into the embroidery pavilion.

"It's me, sister."

"Why are you here and leaving again?" Yunyin put down the embroidered handkerchief in her hand, she stood up and helped him take off his heavy coat.

"I'm afraid of disturbing my sister's purity." Yun Sheng explained.

Yunyin scolded with a smile, "My sister and brother, how can there be anything to disturb and not bother?" ”

Yun Sheng confessed, "It's Zisheng who is wrong." ”

Yun Yin pulled Yun Sheng to sit down and stuffed the stove in his hand into his hand.

"It's cold outside, don't freeze."

Yun Sheng hurriedly returned the heater plug to Yun Yin, "My sister is thin, she should keep warm, Zisheng is a man, and the man's blood is strong, how can he be afraid of the cold?" ”

Yunyin knew his younger brother, and when he saw his resolute attitude, he no longer forced him.

"Did you go out with your dad today?"

"Hmm."

"What are you going to do?"

"Go and receive the decree."

"Divine decree? Our family is just a merchant, how can we be qualified to receive the holy decree? ”

"Our Yun family has donated the most disaster relief funds this time, and what the Prime Minister asked for us today is counted as a commendation."

"Oh, I see......"

Yun Yinqiang smiled, and the two of them had nothing to say for a while.

Suddenly, tears fell from Yunyin's eyes, and she hurriedly turned her back, picked up a handkerchief and wiped away her tears. But these tears don't know what's going on, that day her husband's house was destroyed, she wanted to pretend to cry a few times, but there were no tears, but now she can't wipe them away.

"Sister......

Yun Sheng held Yun Yin's hand tightly, but he couldn't say anything about the comforting words on his lips.

"I'm fine. Sister is fine, don't worry......" Yun Yin tried to hold back her tears and gently brushed Yun Sheng's hand away, "Sister is a widow now, Zi Sheng still doesn't want to be so close...... Provincial ...... The others in the province gossip about you again......"

Yunyin broke down and cried, but despite this, she still cried very quietly, suppressed and painful.

A suffocating sadness welled up in his heart, and Yun Sheng hugged the woman who was trembling from crying tightly into his arms.

"What about gossip? You are my sister, my only dearest! It was you who fed me mouthful, it was you who stole books to me despite being beaten and bruised, and it was you who punished me since I was a child, took care of me, and cherished me...... Isn't it okay to be the simplest of comforts now? Why, why!"

"Zisheng......" Yunyin closed her eyes in pain, "It's my sister who can't let you live the life you want, it's my sister's incompetence, it's my sister's ......"

"No, it's not!" Yun Sheng yelled, and countless guilt and sadness came to his heart together, "Sister, it's Zisheng who owes you ......"

If it weren't for him, my sister wouldn't have been forced to return to Yunfu, and if it weren't for him, my sister wouldn't have been called like a slave by the people in Yunfu, if it weren't for him, my sister wouldn't have ...... My sister will not give up her beloved and marry Pei Hu, that womanizer!

Six years have passed, and my sister has endured torture for six whole years.

Is six years long?

Grown, grown to the age of the crown, grown to the point that he has enough strength to protect his relatives, and grown to the sister and brother who used to talk about everything, but now they are speechless.

But is six years short?

Short, short to the snow and then come, the cold plum blooms again, and the people who used to be in the morning and twilight are now in front of them.

Yun Yin cried a little out of breath, and Yun Sheng hurriedly hugged Yun Yin to the couch.

In the past few years, my sister's body has been getting worse day by day, even if she deliberately painted rouge to cover it, her thin and pale face still can't hide her deep sickness.

In addition to Pei Fu's torture, he knew in his heart that there was also his sister's heart that had not been opened.

Since ancient times, heart disease still requires heart medicine, and the bell has to be tied to the bell, Yun Sheng thought, maybe he should try the method that Shen Xiang told him.